Pascagoula soup kitchen ends home meal delivery program

2014-06-14T03:59:36Z2014-06-14T03:59:36Z

PASCAGOULA, MS (WLOX) -

Hundreds of elderly, home-bound and disabled persons in Jackson County will no longer have a free daily meal delivered to their door. Our Daily Bread soup kitchen in Pascagoula, ended its popular home meal deliveries on Friday, due to budget shortfalls.

The gloomy weather somehow seemed appropriate on this final day of meal deliveries. Folks will miss volunteers like Ray Lankford dropping off a hot meal for the home-bound and hurting.

Eugene Nettles accepted delivery for his brother-in-law.

"Well it's very important because he's down. He had a stroke and he can't get around," he said.

This charitable outreach once delivered two meals a day, until budget cuts in 2011 forced it to once a day only.

On the next stop, a man next door promised he'd get the hot meal to his elderly neighbor in need.

"Very important to this person cause he has to have them every day because he don't cook and he's unable to do anything," said the next door neighbor.

It's not just the elderly who benefit from these deliveries. Disabled and home-bound of any age have counted on these meals. One homebound man said he'd have to find an alternative to the meal deliveries.

"I'll have to try and find some other kind of means. Probably go to Pascagoula to the Catholic Diocese," he said.

Residents are still taking additional measures to stop the violence in Moss Point. Saturday afternoon, an outreach program on Main Street continued its efforts in the fight that's been going on for the past weeks.

Residents are still taking additional measures to stop the violence in Moss Point. Saturday afternoon, an outreach program on Main Street continued its efforts in the fight that's been going on for the past weeks.